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Selected Verse: 1 Kings 7:16 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 1Ki 7:16 |
King James |
And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits: |
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| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| The general character of the "chapiters" or capitals, their great size in proportion to the shaft, which is as one to two, and their construction of two quite different members, remind us of the pillars used by the Persians in their palaces, which were certainly more like Jachin and Boaz than any pillars that have reached us from antiquity. The ornamentation, however, seems to have been far more elaborate than that of the Persian capitals. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Five cubits - The word chapiter is taken either more largely for the whole, so it is five cubits; Or, more strictly, either for the pommels, as they are called, Ch2 4:12, or for the cornice or crown, and so it was but three cubits, to which the pomegranates being added make it four cubits, as it is below, Kg1 7:19, and the other work upon it took up one cubit more, which in all made five cubits. |
19 And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily work in the porch, four cubits.
12 To wit, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the chapiters which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two wreaths to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were on the top of the pillars;